$ wget <desired redis version>
$ tar xzf <file>
$ cd <created folder>
$ make

$ redis-server

$ redis-cli

• Full list of commands in: http://redis.io/commands

• ping, if everything is good, the server will respond pong.

$ pip install redis

import redis
r = redis.StrictRedis(host='192.168.0.100', db=0, socket_timeout=2)
r.set('foo', 'bar')
print r.get('foo')

• You can connect to several isolated interfaces changing db argument.
• flushdb() will clear all the keys for the database you are connected to, while flushall() will clear all the keys for every database.